The UAE hospitality industry initiatives receive attention

What we can learn from the UAE blooming tourism and hospitality sector

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. January 27, 2017

Hotel management aspects are receiving even more attention recently and the initiative comes from the industry participants. The trend is especially remarkable with the local representatives of hospitality industry, and among the most active of them do business in the UAE.

Expert researches are being conducted there on a regular basis and the industry itself shows rather fast growth in the past decade. Although the current crisis affected this process, the recent progress is still stunning.

The UAE and especially Dubai can be praised for the efforts they take to improve their hospitality industry. Its success owns both to governmental programs and industry professionals' initiatives including industry researches that cover the most essential issues of the current hospitality and hotel management industry.

The UAE professionals are currently welcoming the new research that focuses on the hotel property handover phase and the challenges arising before hotel owners, and more importantly the paper provides readers with professional recommendations on how every issue should be tackled. The white paper called 'Handover Strategies' has been in the works for several months and is being launched at the turn of the year.

The value of such white papers is hardly exaggerated since they are not only based on the latest data and involve months of meticulous researchers' work but they also provide priceless opportunity for hospitality students. Many of the researches are conducted in collaboration with major UAE's hospitality colleges and academies. This allows students taking active part in real hotels processes and improve graduates' level.

More initiatives to come

Another highly anticipated white paper is dedicated to the issue of hotel staff turnover in the UAE. This issue is also a genuine concern not only for the Middle East hospitality industry but it is also recognized at the global scale. It is expected to give decisive answers to the variety of conflict situations and dilemmas that are frequently aroused regarding hotel staff. It is also worth mentioning that the white paper is being prepared in collaboration with The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management which means valuable experience for the students. The researches have already announced some important findings that were uncovered during their work (the outline is available at the http://www.tfgassetmanagement.com/news/hospitality/how-staff-turnover-impacts-a-hotel%E2%80%99s-pl-new-tfg-asset-management-white-paper-out-soon.aspx).

The Middle East hospitality experts had a busy year end, too, since a few important industry events took place during this time period. It includes Hotelier Express Summit 2016 and HSMAI's first Middle East Strategy Conference as well as Middle East Architect Awards ceremony that took place a few days ago. Every year the number of hospitality industry events increases with even more companies devising initiatives that would not only benefit their commercial goals but also improve the whole industry and add to the region's tourism growth.